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BLACK AUTHOR SAYS: "BILL COSBY IS RIGHT!"
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| May 20, 2004
| Ermias Alemayehu
Posted on 05/20/2004 5:24:48 PM PDT by abigail2
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Go Bill!! It's about time!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:24:50 PM PDT
by
abigail2
To: fabian; NewDestiny; rebuildus; Chad Fairbanks; blackie; Alamo-Girl; thesummerwind; Law; ...
According to news reports, Cosby said: ".The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They're buying things for their kids--$500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.'" What took you so long to notice?! But I'm glad you did!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:27:35 PM PDT
by
abigail2
To: abigail2
I don't fully trust Cosby, if I'm not mistaken he's a solid RAT, but on this issue I agree. Good for him for bringing the issue front and center.
Prairie
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:30:41 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(sKerry is a sKunk!!)
To: abigail2
Cosby's been on this for years. He got his Ed.D in education thirty years ago from UMASS and has been shooting off his mouth on school and family issues ever since.
He swings left occassionally, but for the most part he's been one of the more responsible voices on the subject.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:30:46 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: abigail2
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Tonight on FoX BILL O'REILLY agreed with BILL COSBY..!!!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:32:38 PM PDT
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
To: Nateman; dbwz; Ligeia; Moonmad27; freekitty; OldFriend; CounterCounterCulture; Registered; ...
Rev. Peterson responded: "Bill Cosby is right! It's about time that high profile blacks openly spoke the truth about the problems in the black community. This is what most blacks say in the privacy of their homes, barbershops and amongst other blacks. I'm surprised that he [Cosby] made these comments in front of NAACP leaders."Boy, what a shock! I'm truly surprised because didn't his wife say some really crude things some time back about racism...
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:33:18 PM PDT
by
abigail2
To: prairiebreeze; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; xsmommy; redgolum; 4ConservativeJustices; dennisw; ...
Yep, he's been a pretty weak character, but it's good to see him speakin' up. Who knows what will happen next!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:34:55 PM PDT
by
abigail2
To: ALOHA RONNIE
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:35:38 PM PDT
by
abigail2
To: abigail2
He's been preaching this for years. this is just the first time he's been really LOUD about it, and to the NAACP, too!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:35:49 PM PDT
by
tiamat
((It's not Bush's fault.... It's the media's fault!))
To: abigail2
See, people could get excited about helping people with that sort of attitude.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:36:12 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: billorites
Right ON! He has this right! If the African-American wants to advance he's got to join the main stream. This goes for poor white's in the hills of Alabama and Mexicans in El Paso too. You gots to learn English ifin' you wants ta git ahead in this here country.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:36:12 PM PDT
by
Hollywoodghost
(Let he who would be free strike the first blow)
To: abigail2
During his hit sitcom "The Cosby Show" in the 80s, Cosby made it a point that all cast members were to speak perfect English and none of that "finna, gonna, ain't" crap.
I've watched countless reruns and have never heard a word uttered Ebonics except when it was done for a punchline joke.
To: abigail2
It only makes sense that to be successful in the country you live in...whatever country that is, you need to speak the language. It's not bigotry to expect every citizen of a political entity to be fluent in the common tongue.
To: abigail2
Well, I guess you can be outraged over racism AND realize that black families need to take responsibility for their own success or failure.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:39:46 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: abigail2
If I was a Black dude, I'd be scratching my head right now, asking myself what did we Black folks get for all those years of support for the Democrat Party. Blacks are now the second largest minority group in the USA. Hispanics are now number one! Millions of Black children can neither read or write! Blacks have been and will stay at the bottom of the economic totem pole. Hispanics and Asians, that's where the politcal power is. Worse than all this is the fact that Arab Muslim terrorists are having a field day slaughtering Blacks in Africa. When Black beloved John Kerry turns over the USA to the United Nations, the slaughters of American Jews, Christians and Blacks will begin right here in the good ole USA! Man, if I were a Black dude, I wouldn't be voting for John Kerry! Not unless I wish to be riding the bus to heaven. And....in the back of the bus...too!
To: abigail2
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FoX News Channel's 'The O'REILLY Factor' Host BILL O'REILLY agreed with BILL COSBY's view on this Issue tonight during this hour.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:40:56 PM PDT
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
To: abigail2
Rev. Peterson responded: "Bill Cosby is right! It's about time that high profile blacks openly spoke the truth about the problems in the black community. This is what most blacks say in the privacy of their homes, barbershops and amongst other blacks. I'm surprised that he [Cosby] made these comments in front of NAACP leaders."Jesse Lee Peterson is NO FOOL. He is capitalizing on a watershed event in modern black America, a high profile black actually breaking silence in front of the poverty pimps of the NAALCP, and telling it like Rev. Peterson has been saying FOR YEARS!
Go get 'em, Jesse Lee Peterson!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:41:44 PM PDT
by
Chieftain
(To all who serve and support those who serve - thank you!)
To: abigail2
He changed somewhat after his son was murdered. He appreciated the police and their investigation/prosecution.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:41:48 PM PDT
by
Mark
(Treason doth never prosper, for if it prosper, NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON.)
To: Hollywoodghost
"You gots to learn English ifin' you wants ta git ahead in this here country."The irony is that at some point in the furure, the young black will be denied a job because he can't speak Spanish.
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:42:03 PM PDT
by
OldEagle
(Haven't been wrong since 1947.)
To: tiamat
Well, it made the news big time this time...good for him!
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posted on
05/20/2004 5:42:21 PM PDT
by
abigail2
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